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- 3.7Average Rating
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- January 3, 2016First Review
- October 9, 2016Last Review
K-2SO™
K-2SO™
Posted:October 9, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
1
/
5
Disapointing.
" Bought it to check out the mechanism that allows him to throw punches. I was not disappointed by the smart engineering that went into said mechanism, as always LEGO engineers showing their worth and smarts. The head looks great too.
However, for me, that is where the good things end about this set. He is remarkably unstable and very hard to keep on its feet, the legs are not as flexible as from other sets, specially at hip level, coming off very easily when trying to pose the figure.
Even though he is more than capable of throwing punches around, we have to be very careful about how we pose the arms, otherwise they will be mostly hitting himself rather than a target.
I bought this together with many other sets to keep me busy until Christmas, but from the 2/5 sets I built so far I got nothing but disappointment. I'm looking at you Kannan's Speeder! I hope the TIE Advanced Prototype, TIE Striker and Slave I prove to be worthy builds.
"
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Play Experience (Optional):
1
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
1
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Very Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
Share:
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Kanan's Speeder Bike™
Kanan's Speeder Bike™
Posted:October 9, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
3
/
5
Beware!
" The build is very simple, the speeder, even though it does look good its so out of proportion for the figures that I don't think its going to stay assembled for long.
The crates however, they do look good and are actually very roomy - that's not to say they have no room for improvements, they do, specially at lid level which should be a good exercise to correct the model.
But the real reason I bought this set was because it seemed to be a "cheap" way of getting more blasters to replace the ugly stud shooters I have lying around..
The picture on this set suggests that it brings 7 blaster rifles, one light-saber plus one blaster pistol so I was very disappointed to learn from the instruction booklet that it should bring 5 rifles! Maybe the 2 extra on the picture are supposed to be extra guns that come with the set and are not counted on the inventory? I don't known... all I know is that in the end I only got 1 rifle that was on bag 1 with the stormtrooper.
I'm guessing the missing 4/6 were supposed to be on the small bag inside bag 2? Good news is that LEGO shouldn't have any trouble sorting this out. I hope. There are rebels to fight!
"
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Build Time:
30
mins
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
1
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Very Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
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The Hulk Buster Smash
The Hulk Buster Smash
Posted:March 26, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
The best!
" As a HUGE Iron Man fan and LEGO, once I saw this set I knew I had to have it.
Did not disappoint! The figures look great and the Buster is amazing! Very flexible and lots of play value.
"
I would recommend this to a friend!
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Build Time:
01
hrs
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
5
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
Share:
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Obi-Wan Kenobi™
Obi-Wan Kenobi™
Posted:March 26, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
4
/
5
Now its a fight!
" Finally my Grievous got his friend and they are locked in permanent battle!
This set is not the best in terms of flexibility due to his "skirt" in the front that gets on the way of some leg poses but he does his job well enough so that he can fight Grievous :)
Good addition if you like to create some fighting scenarios.
Wishlist:
I would love to have a Destroyer Droid to add to my fights!
Iron Man and Hulk Buster would be awesome too :) "
I would love to have a Destroyer Droid to add to my fights!
Iron Man and Hulk Buster would be awesome too :) "
I would recommend this to a friend!
My Product Recommendations
General Grievous™
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Build Time:
25
mins
Play Experience (Optional):
4
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Very Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
Share:
-1point
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First Order Stormtrooper™
First Order Stormtrooper™
Posted:March 26, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Fine addition!
" Its a great little adition to a collection, specially if you are like me and you enjoy changing the position of your figures every time you pass by them - something I didn't know I loved doing until I got Grievous.
This set showed me how massive Grievous actually is, but the trooper itself is quite nice as well. Very flexible, lots of possible positions and a working gun gives it a lot of play value or just to pose.
Having these sets just makes me sad that they didn't exist when I was a teenager to replace the Gi Joe and Action Man :)
Now for a little wishlist:
Dear LEGO, if you are listening can we pretty please have a Destroyer Droid too? Its my favorite droid and I am sure it would look amazing.
And since I have your attention, Iron Man and Hulk Buster would also make amazing figures like these :D "
Dear LEGO, if you are listening can we pretty please have a Destroyer Droid too? Its my favorite droid and I am sure it would look amazing.
And since I have your attention, Iron Man and Hulk Buster would also make amazing figures like these :D "
I would recommend this to a friend!
My Product Recommendations
The Hulk Buster Smash
(55)
Obi-Wan Kenobi™
(5)
Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor™
(25)
General Grievous™
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Build Time:
25
mins
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
5
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Very Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Imperial Star Destroyer™
Imperial Star Destroyer™
Posted:March 21, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Amazing!
" This set was a gift from my brothers from last Christmas, it seems they went through a lot of trouble to find one since it was out of stock everywhere but managed to find the last box somewhere.
Even though I only assembled this bad boy quite recently, it is responsible for my recent, insane shopping spree here at LEGO.com.
To the model!
Just to get it out of the way, it is of course a quite repetitive model, but that was expected. However, it was completely unexpected how great it actually looks when assembled!
Just to get it out of the way, it is of course a quite repetitive model, but that was expected. However, it was completely unexpected how great it actually looks when assembled!
I would like to take my hat for the designer of this model, specially for the one responsible for the super simple and elegant system that makes all the turrets turn. Very well done!
All in all the model is really great and is really really sturdy! Except one little part where I had to make a few minor adjustments - the cover with all the turrets slides a bit on top of the structure, I just needed 4 little studs to fix it.
Now I think I have to try and build a bigger version myself, because I love this ship.
"
I would recommend this to a friend!
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Build Time:
08
hrs
Play Experience (Optional):
5
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor™
Obi-Wan's Jedi Interceptor™
Posted:March 21, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
3
/
5
Its an OK model
" The ship itself is OK, looking from the top it looks very good compared to the movie, but the underside and from the back it is a bit disappointing
Its also missing a place to keep the lightsaber so you have to either store it elsewhere or put inside the cockpit in a weird position, otherwise it won't close.
The cockpit itself is a bit flimsy and it opens up way to easily... the front window is always falling out as well.
"
I would recommend this to a friend!
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Educator
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Build Time:
01
hrs
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
3
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
Share:
+1point
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Imperial Assault Carrier™
Imperial Assault Carrier™
Posted:February 15, 2016
Overall:
3
/
5
Some clever lever systems ... lots of bad design
" The good:
- Very smart use of technic pieces to act as hold and release system for the mini Tie Fighters
- The mini Tie Fighters look alright, though I would have prefererd a more round design around the cockpit
- The engine makes the gusn rotate
- Very smart use of technic pieces to act as hold and release system for the mini Tie Fighters
- The mini Tie Fighters look alright, though I would have prefererd a more round design around the cockpit
- The engine makes the gusn rotate
The bad:
- The cockpit: there is a place for a figurine in the cockpit however we can't see it inside because there is an arc piece behind the visor, making the whole thing a bit useless in my book;
- The cargo hold is under the floor and a bit hard to get the boxes out;
- The whole cover over the main body of the ship doesn't seem to attach itself very well, I have tried many positions but it always moves around. "
- The cockpit: there is a place for a figurine in the cockpit however we can't see it inside because there is an arc piece behind the visor, making the whole thing a bit useless in my book;
- The cargo hold is under the floor and a bit hard to get the boxes out;
- The whole cover over the main body of the ship doesn't seem to attach itself very well, I have tried many positions but it always moves around. "
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
3
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
Share:
-6points
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First Order Special Forces TIE fighter™
First Order Special Forces TIE fighter™
Posted:February 15, 2016
Overall:
3
/
5
Super Sturdy... but probably way too expensive.
" Straight to the point: this set is probably not worth the asking price. You get a very sturdy Tie Fighter look a like, but it lacks lots of detail in and around the cockpit.
The inner cockpit is cut accross by a grey technic beam that goes from wing to wing, on each side of this beam there is a place for each pilot. It is however very hard to place each pilot on their places and keep them there since they have no actual seats to get attached to.
Outside, the windows are the dominant view. 3 large circular Windows cover the most part of the surface however there are still some ugly corners left out...
The best part about this design is actually the wing attachment system, it was unexpected how sturdy the four little handles can be.I have shoock that ship a lot and the wings never even nudged.
Overall:
Looks good at a distance, the cockipit can be largely improved. "
Looks good at a distance, the cockipit can be largely improved. "
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Purchased For:
Self
Build Time:
01
hrs
Play Experience (Optional):
4
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
3
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
Share:
0points
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General Grievous™
General Grievous™
Posted:January 23, 2016
Kokan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Overall:
5
/
5
Now he needs a friend...
" I have to start with a remark considering LEGO packaging and instructions: if you are going to have multiple LEGO bags in one box it would be nice if we weren't forced to open them all before we even reach the end of the first page of instructions.
This set features 4 plastic bags: 1 for the single piece that is his face (yes, really), 1 small for mostly the connector pieces, 2 large for the remaining pieces - except his main body part that comes outside any plastic bag.
By step 3 of the instructions all bags but the head had to be open and emptied to find the pieces we need. So my suggestion: either split the pieces through the bags so that we open each one as we end a part of the figure or just put everything in one bag and save up on some plastic. I am scared to start my Imperial Star Destroyer.
Now, for the review I will keep this short and to the point. Overall a beautiful figure of one of my favourite character from the saga.
Pros:
- No stickers, all (the few: face and torso are printed)
- HUGE figure with lots of articulations: head, 4 arms and 2 legs.
- Love the claws
- No stickers, all (the few: face and torso are printed)
- HUGE figure with lots of articulations: head, 4 arms and 2 legs.
- Love the claws
Cons:
-It does have lots of articulations, but they could be very well improved as most reviewers here already pointed out. The legs are clumsy and very hard to make a pose that does not throw it out of balance - specially at hip level.
-It does have lots of articulations, but they could be very well improved as most reviewers here already pointed out. The legs are clumsy and very hard to make a pose that does not throw it out of balance - specially at hip level.
-The arms are way to simple and thin and the hands could be replaced by something like the ones in the Iron Man Hulk Buster figure.
-The two grey parts that attach the arms to each other look out of place.
"
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I would recommend this to a friend!
From:
France Metropolitan
Age:
25-34
years old
Customer Type:
LEGO Fan
Building Experience:
Expert LEGO builder
Build Time:
30
mins
Play Experience (Optional):
3
/
5
Value for Money (Optional):
4
/
5
Level of Difficulty:
Easy
Very Easy
Very Challenging
I would recommend this to a friend!
Share:
-1point
6of 13found this review helpful.